So just finished watching this documentary and thought it's extremely relevant to atheism and also freedom of religion, especially in America recently, where politicians regularly bring up god and even go to war, ostensibly, in god's name. So thought I would share, since a lot of members here are, like me, not americans and may not have known about it.
link to documentary here:
Vashti McCollum basically went to court because her son's school was teaching voluntary religion classes and would put her son outside of the classroom because she did not want him to attend. He got bullied a lot, once even made to walk all the way home without shoes in the snow.
The case eventually shaped the understanding of the separation of church and state as we now know it.
During the case the family was persecuted so badly even their house cat was killed and left on their doorstep. I actually didn't know that US was that intolerant, and it wasn't even that long ago.
link to documentary here:
Vashti McCollum basically went to court because her son's school was teaching voluntary religion classes and would put her son outside of the classroom because she did not want him to attend. He got bullied a lot, once even made to walk all the way home without shoes in the snow.
The case eventually shaped the understanding of the separation of church and state as we now know it.
During the case the family was persecuted so badly even their house cat was killed and left on their doorstep. I actually didn't know that US was that intolerant, and it wasn't even that long ago.
